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NEW YORK (AP) — By today's politically polarized standards, the Supreme Court's momentous Roe v. Wade ruling was a landslide. By a 7-2 vote on Jan. 22, 1973, the justices established a nationwide right to abortion.
Forty years and roughly 55 million abortions later, however, the ruling's legacy is the opposite of consensus. Abortion ranks as one of the most intractably divisive issues in America and is likely to remain so as rival camps of true believers see little space for common ground.
Unfolding events in two states illustrate the depth of the divide. In New York, already a bastion of liberal abortion laws, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged in his Jan. 9 State of the State speech to entrench those rights even more firmly. In Mississippi, where many anti-abortion laws have been enacted in recent years, the lone remaining abortion clinic is on the verge of closure because nearby hospitals won't grant obligatory admitting privileges to its doctors.
"Unlike a lot of other issues in the culture wars, this is the one in which both sides really regard themselves as civil rights activists, trying to expand the frontiers of human freedom," said Jon Shields, a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College. "That's a recipe for permanent conflict."
On another hot-button social issue — same-sex marriage — there's been a strong trend of increasing support in recent years, encompassing nearly all major demographic categories.
There's been no such dramatic shift, in either direction, on abortion.
For example, a new Pew Research Center poll finds 63 percent of U.S. adults opposed to overturning Roe, compared to 60 percent in 1992. The latest Gallup poll on the topic shows 52 percent of Americans saying abortion should be legal under certain circumstances, 25 percent wanting it legal in all cases and 20 percent wanting it outlawed in all cases — roughly the same breakdown as in the 1970s.
"There's a large share of Americans for whom this is not a black-and-white issue," said Michael Dimock, the Pew center's director. "The circumstances matter to them."
Indeed, many conflicted respondents tell pollsters they support the right to legal abortion while considering it morally wrong. And a 2011 survey of 3,000 adults by the Public Religion Research Institute found many who classified themselves as both "pro-life" and "pro-choice."
Shields, like many scholars of the abortion debate, doubts a victor will emerge anytime soon.
"There are reasonable arguments on both sides, making rationally defensible moral claims," he said.
Nonetheless, the rival legions of activists and advocacy groups on the front lines of the conflict each claim momentum is on their side as they convene symposiums and organize rallies to commemorate the Roe anniversary.
Supporters of legal access to abortion were relieved by the victory of their ally, President Barack Obama, over anti-abortion Republican Mitt Romney in November.
A key reason for the relief related to the Supreme Court, whose nine justices are believed to divide 5-4 in favor of a broad right to abortion. Romney, if elected, might have been able to appoint conservative justices who could help overturn Roe v. Wade, but Obama's victory makes that unlikely at least for the next four years.
Abortion-rights groups also were heartened by a backlash to certain anti-abortion initiatives and rhetoric that they viewed as extreme.
"Until politicians feel there's a price to pay for voting against women, they will continue to do it," said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a lightning rod for conservative attacks because it's the leading abortion provider in the U.S.
In Missouri and Indiana, Republican candidates for the U.S. Senate lost races that their party initially expected to win after making widely criticized comments regarding abortion rights for impregnated rape victims. In Virginia, protests combined with mockery on late-night TV shows prompted GOP politicians to scale back a bill that would have required women seeking abortions to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound.
"All these things got Americans angry and got them to realize just how extreme the other side is," said Jennifer Dalven, director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Reproductive Freedom Project.
"This issue will remain very divisive," she said. "But I do see this as a sea-change moment… The American public wants abortion to remain safe, legal and accessible."
However, anti-abortion leaders insist they have reason for optimism, particularly at the state level.
In the past two years, following Republican election gains in 2010, GOP-dominated state legislatures have passed more than 130 bills intended to reduce access to abortion. The measures include mandatory counseling and ultrasound for women seeking abortions, bans on abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, curbs on how insurers cover the procedure, and new regulations for abortion clinics.
The ACLU and other abortion-rights groups are challenging several of the laws in court, notably the 20-week ban. Yet already this year, Republican leaders in Texas, Mississippi and elsewhere are talking about new legislative efforts to restrict abortion.
Mississippi's Gov. Phil Bryant says he wants to end abortion in the state and is eager for the remaining clinic, the Jackson Women's Health Organization, to close.
"My goal, of course, is to shut it down," Bryant told reporters on Jan. 10. "If I had the power to do so legally, I'd do so tomorrow."
The clinic is a steady target of anti-abortion protesters who take turns praying, singing hymns and confronting patients. Its administrator, Diane Derzis, says the three principal physicians on her staff have been unable to get admitting privileges at area hospitals due to pressure from the anti-abortion movement.
Such developments hearten Charmaine Yoest, president of Americans United for Life, one of the groups most active in proposing anti-abortion bills for state legislatures to consider.
"Within the context of Roe, we have been remarkably successful in terms of expanding the legal protection of human life," Yoest said. "We're working to make Roe irrelevant."
Yoest's optimism derives partly from her belief that young Americans are increasingly skeptical about abortion, though polls give mixed verdicts on this matter.
"It is really easy to explain the pro-life position to a child — it's hard to explain to them why you should kill a baby before it's born," Yoest said.
Supporters of legal access to abortion dispute the notion of swelling anti-abortion sentiment among young people, but some activists do sense a gap in terms of political intensity.
"I have enormous hope in this millennial generation — they're progressive, thoughtful and they identify in their pro-choice values," said Nancy Keenan, who will soon be stepping down after eight years as president of NARAL Pro-Choice America.
"But there is an intensity gap — they don't act on those values," Keenan said. "The other side votes their anti-choice, pro-life values — it's at the top of their political activity."
She drew a contrast with the push for same-sex marriage.
"With marriage equality, gays and lesbians are fighting for something they didn't have," Keenan said. "In the case of reproductive rights, you're trying to maintain the status quo. The millennial generation doesn't see it as threatened."
Another difference: the campaign for same-sex marriage has benefited greatly from personal testimony by gay couples, speaking out in legislative hearings and campaign videos. By contrast, although millions of American women have had abortions, relatively few speak out publicly to defend their decisions.
"If you know some women, you know a woman who's had abortion," said Dr. Anne Davis, who is medical director for Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health and provides abortions as part of her practice in New York City.
"But you do not see women talking about their abortions," Davis said. "They do what they need to do and move on. I can't blame people for that."
Davis, who learned abortion techniques during her residency at the University of Washington in the mid-'90s, said the procedure has become increasingly safe — notably with the advent of abortions via medication. She expressed dismay at the spate of restrictive laws that she and many of her fellow physicians view as ill-founded.
"Initially, we'd say, 'That's ridiculous' — and now we're stuck with them," she said.
Despite all the furor, abortion has been commonplace in the post-Roe era, with about one-third of adult women estimated to have had at least one in their lifetime.
Of the roughly 1.2 million U.S. women who have abortions each year, half are 25 or older, about 18 percent are teens, and the rest are 20-24. About 60 percent have given birth to least one child prior to getting an abortion. A disproportionately high number are black or Hispanic; and regardless of race, high abortion rates are linked to economic hard times.
The Roe opinion, written by Justice Harry Blackmun, asserted that the right to privacy extended to a women's decision on whether to end a pregnancy. States have been allowed to restrict abortion access at late stages of pregnancy, but only if they make exceptions for protecting the mother's health — and the net result has been one of the most liberal abortion policies in the world.
At the time of Roe v. Wade, abortion was legal on request in four states, allowed under limited circumstances in about 16 others, and outlawed under nearly all circumstances in the other states, including Texas, where the Roe case originated.
One of the most liberal members of the current Supreme Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is among those who have questioned the timing of the Roe ruling and suggested that it contributed to the ongoing bitter debate.
"It's not that the judgment was wrong, but it moved too far too fast," Ginsburg said at Columbia University last year.
She said the court could have put off dealing with abortion while the state-by-state process evolved or it could have struck down just the Texas law, which allowed abortions only to save a mother's life.
Asked about Ginsburg's musings, Cecile Richards of Planned Parenthood said the Roe ruling was critically needed to curb unsafe abortions in states where the procedure was outlawed.
"Women were paying the price with their lives," she said.
However, Carter Snead, a Notre Dame law professor who has studied abortion and bioethics, said Blackmun's opinion was wrong to dismantle state anti-abortion laws so sweepingly.
"One key virtue of democracy is that, win or lose, the outcomes are generally seen as legitimate because all of the competing sides have had their say," Snead said in an email. "In Roe, the court short-circuited this process entirely, and handed a near total victory to one side of a bitterly contested question on the gravest of matters."
Snead said abortion opponents have an enduringly compelling argument — "that the smallest, weakest, and most unwanted nevertheless have a claim on us." But he said this argument can't be translated into public policy without a change in the Supreme Court's makeup.
Looking ahead, there's no clear path toward an easing of the debate. Some activists and politicians say common ground could be found in a broad new campaign to curtail unintended pregnancies, but many anti-abortion leaders have shown little interest in this.
Some abortion opponents, such as Serrin Foster of Feminists for Life, urge bipartisan efforts to support pregnant young women as they pursue careers or education, so they don't feel financial pressure to have an abortion. But supporters of legal access to abortion look askance at such proposals if they are coupled with calls to take abortion decision-making out of a woman's hands.
For Carrie Gordon Earll, now senior policy analyst for the conservative ministry Focus on the Family, that Roe-established freedom of choice once seemed logical. She got pregnant in 1981 while attending a Christian college and opted to have an abortion.
She recently made a video expressing her regrets.
"I can look back at those 40 years and say without a doubt, the world is not a better place because of abortion, women are not in a better place," she says. "What it has created is a world where you're almost expected to abort if you're pregnant at an inopportune time."
In an interview, Earll mused on how the anti-abortion movement has persevered since Roe.
"We've had 40 years of marketing by Hollywood and the cultural elites that abortion is a good thing, and we still have a battle going on," she said. "We're holding our own."
A similar refrain of perseverance is sounded by Dr. Douglas Laube of Madison, Wis., who began performing abortions as part of his practice a year after the Roe decision.
"It was important for women to be able to legally ensure their right to make their own decision," said Laube, who is chairman of Physicians for Reproductive Health Choice. "But it served to polarize society politically."
Laube is worried by the spread of anti-abortion state laws, but encouraged by the surge of women becoming obstetrician-gynecologists — a trend he hopes will ease the shortage of abortion providers.
"I see the movement toward the religious right being countered by a growing movement among practitioners and advocates for maintaining this as legal," he said. "That means the controversy will continue. But it also means we will hold our ground."
Associated Press writer Emily Wagster Pettus in Jackson, Miss., contributed to this report.
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i love fresh corn salad with black beans and salsa!ReplyDelete
- ErinAugust 22, 2012
I love to make your Summer corn salad with manchengo and lime ~ and since it always feels like summer here in FLA it goes with everything!!! I also like a good black bean and corn salsa since we eat a lot of mexican food!ReplyDelete
- ErinAugust 22, 2012
I follow you on FB and Pinterest!ReplyDelete
I like making Mexican Grilled Corn! It's all in the sauce :)ReplyDelete
I follow you on facebook.ReplyDelete
I just love fresh corn. When you say creamed corn with only a little butter, my eyes lit up. Sounds fabulous. I have not heard of this particular gadget and can't wait to try it although I have tried other cob cutters and none worked as well as a sharp serated knife. Of course, that's for just getting the corn off the cob--not what you are doing. BTW, have you seen the video of the old man who microwaves corn in the shucks, slices off the end and slips the cob out without any silks in sight? I tried it and it works!ReplyDelete
I follow you on Facebook too. Also like fresh corn saute until a little brown in butter only.ReplyDelete
- BrandiAugust 22, 2012
I love using creamed corn in a corn pudding recipe that I acquired several years past and now make it every Thanksgiving holiday for my family.ReplyDelete
Being from the Midwest the best way to eat corn is straight off the cob! That is one cool looking gadget though.ReplyDelete
I love to make a grilled Corn, Zucchini and quinoa salad, so delicious and good for you too! I also use fresh corn in a spicy corn dip. Yum!ReplyDelete
I liked you on FB, what a neat page!!ReplyDelete
My favorite recipe using corn is a Mexican(ish) bean and corn casserole with spicy tomatoes and lots of cheddar cheese - it's delicious by itself or served with chips and salad toppings, like a taco salad of sorts. Best of all, my 5 kids all love it.ReplyDelete
We love corn on the cob, roasted corn on the grill, corn salads and my husbands favorite "Creamed Corn" it would be great to have a that nifty corn toolReplyDelete
The best way to enjoy corn - right off the cob! I grew up eating fresh picked sweet corn from my grandparents farm. The best way to cook it - place in cold water with a splash of milk and a spoonful of sugar. Cooking it in salted water will make the corn tough.ReplyDelete
I follow you on FB and Pinterest, loved your corn post!!ReplyDelete
- Pat RAugust 22, 2012
I follow you on email and FBReplyDelete
I loved this post. I love corn in all its forms. My grandma had a cornfield out her back door in West Virginia. Silver Queen. Corn afficionados...know what that is. Every winter we took out containers of this sweet creamed corn from her ancient reach-in freezer. This brought back some happy memories of that farmhouse and my Nanny.ReplyDelete
I follow you on facebook & subscribe by email.ReplyDelete
- Nicole C-FAugust 22, 2012
My father use to make Corn Pudding for Thanksgiving every year. When we would go to someone else's house for Thanksgiving it was always requested that he bring his dish. He never followed a recipe but kind of made it up as he went along so it was never exactly the same. (that was my Dad! LOL) He passed away before I could get him to write anything down. Every year I try and get it close but so far I've not been successful. Maybe its better that way. :-)ReplyDelete
- Nicole C-FAugust 22, 2012
I also follow you on Facebook!ReplyDelete
My favorite way to eat corn is fried corn with 1/2 and 1/2 regular corn and creamed corn, bacon and salt and pepper. Easy, simple and delicious.ReplyDelete
I am subscribed to your blog by email.
I love to make Ina's corn salad, so good!ReplyDelete
One of my sweetest memories is of my mom making creamed corn for dinner. She did it the old-fashioned way, how she would have loved this gadget.ReplyDelete
I follow you on fb too!ReplyDelete
I'm happily subscribed by e-mail and facebook and pinterest.ReplyDelete
I just love corn pudding with red peppers. Thanks for the giveaway!ReplyDelete
I also follow you on Facebook. :)ReplyDelete
Creamed corn. Period. My mom (raised in Mississippi) always makes it (the way her mom from Mississippi does) whenever I come to visit. I think creamed corn is best when served with black eyed peas and cornbread (not that godawful yankee kind with the sugar though, gross) and the three items blend. I love it and every time I eat it the memories flood in for me, and I know they do for my mom too. She always tells me about when she and one of her sisters would sneak into the fridge late at night to get into the leftover, cold creamed corn. My mom and I don't fight over it like that but we've both been known to eat it for breakfast.ReplyDelete
I love making a corn and avocado salsa! So delicious!ReplyDelete
I am freezing corn for this now for when my brother comes home for the holidays. Every year I try out a new creamed corn recipe on him because it is his favorite dish. (And my favorite to prepare because of that!)ReplyDelete
I love corn cakes, but I'm excited to try homemade creamed corn - I've only had it from a can!ReplyDelete
straight off the cob, boiled or roasted. I love enjoying the unadulterated sweetness of the corn itself.ReplyDelete
I'm a purest. I love love LOVE Corn-on-the-Cob, boiled 10 minutes... no salt or butter... just amazing CORN... I'm making myself hungry. A close second is corn from the cob, freshly cut off.ReplyDelete
I love POLENTA! It's corn at its fullest and best :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 23, 2012
My favorite is mexican corn chowder.ReplyDelete
I love corn on the cob, cornbread, tortillas..you name it. This is, again, the summer of corn and tomato pie. It's so good but I need to turn it into a cobbler to make it simpler but first need to incorporate cornmeal into the dough. Maybe just use cornbread batter? I'll figure it out! Love creamed corn, too. Have a recipe from Cooks Country that sounds similar to yours. I imagine you can cook this in a Crock Pot, ya think?ReplyDelete
- AlyssaAugust 23, 2012
Corn and macaroni casserole, from my grandmother.ReplyDelete
- AlyssaAugust 23, 2012
I follow you on Facebook!ReplyDelete
My favorite is cornbread! Especially when they are cornbread muffins.ReplyDelete
This kitchen gadget looks really neat :)
I follow you on facebook :)ReplyDelete
Polenta! so yummy and versatile!ReplyDelete
- luv2cook44August 23, 2012
Corn casserole is my favorite. Can't wait to try your creamed corn recipe.ReplyDelete
- luv2cook44August 23, 2012
I follow you on Facebook and get emails.ReplyDelete
My favorite corn recipe is grilled basil parmesan corn. I could eat an embarrassing amount of that stuff.ReplyDelete
- CarolineAugust 23, 2012
My favorite corn recipe is nothing fancy at all...just stove-top popcorn with a little bit of salt!ReplyDelete
- CarolineAugust 23, 2012
Also, I follow you on Facebook!ReplyDelete
The best ways are usually the simplest- and off the cob- whether grilled, boiled or however you cook it- is the best.ReplyDelete
Momofuku corn cookies !!!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2012
I love corn in a Mexican salsa that sweet pop on you tongue behind all the pepper and spice is heaven as far as I'm concerned!ReplyDelete
Great giveaway btw, I've never even heard of a tool like this before, would have come in handy before I picked up a dreadful can of creamed corn which as far as I could tell looked and tasted like hazardous waste....yuck! So making my own with this if I win!!
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2012
I follow you on Facebook :)ReplyDelete
Corn fresh from the garden and a little butter and I am happy!ReplyDelete
Yum! I love corn chowder - fresh corn just can't be beat.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2012
Is there a better way to eat corn other than fresh off the cob? If I can keep from eating it in the garden, I love to grill it and sprinkle a little Parmesan on top. Oooo! But this handy gadget will save time and fingers when it's time for preserving.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 27, 2012
For Sunday dinner today, I made this creamed corn with my new gadget. It was FABULOUS! I used the huge stainless bowl I use when assembling my salad in a jar so all the mess was contained. Once I got the hang of it, getting the corn off the cob went fast.
I can't wait to do it again. Think it will make a great Thanksgiving tradition. Thanks again.
Thanks for visiting my blog! I love hearing from family, friends, and bloggers, so please leave a comment. Happy cooking!


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(Photo: Warner Bros Pictures) The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - November 18 In this highly anticipated chapter of the Twilight vampire saga, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) must deal with potentially devastating consequences brought on by their marriage and the birth of their child. (Photo: Andrew Cooper/Summit Entertainment) Arthur Christmas - November 23 Set on Christmas night, Arthur Christmas reveals the answer to every child's question: "So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?" James McAvoy leads the cast as Arthur, Santa's younger son who must complete an urgent mission before Christmas morning dawns. The animated film also features the voices of Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy. 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Pictures) Young Adult - December 9 Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron plays an alcoholic writer of young adult novels who returns to her hometown after her divorce to rekindle an old romance with an ex-boyfriend (Patrick Wilson). Diablo Cody (who won an Oscar for writing "Juno") penned the script to this dramedy, which is also directed by "Juno" and "Up in the Air" director Jason Reitman. (Photo: Paramount Pictures) Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - December 16 The world's most famous detective, Sherlock Holmes (Robert Downey, Jr.), reunite with his sidekick Dr. Watson (Jude Law) to face off against their most cunning adversary Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris). Guy Ritchie directs this action-packed adventure, also starring Noomi Rapace and Stephen Fry. (Photo: Daniel Smith/Warner Bros. Pictures) Iron Lady - December 16 (Limited) Meryl Streep stars as Margaret Thatcher in this biopic of the former British prime minister. Not surprisingly, the film is already garnering Oscar buzz for 16-time Academy Award nominee Streep. "Iron Lady" also stars Jim Broadbent and Richard E. Grant. (Alex Bailey/Pathe Productions Ltd./The Weinstein Co.) Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol - December 21 In this action sequel, Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his rogue team go undercover to clear their organization's name when it is implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Directed by Brad Bird, the film also stars Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Paula Patton. (Photo: Paramount Pictures) Girl With The Dragon Tattoo - December 21 Director David Fincher delivers his much buzzed-about adaptation of Stieg Larsson's bestseller. In this remake, Daniel Craig plays the journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who is aided by the troubled young hacker Lisbeth Salander (Rooney Mara) in his search for a woman who has been missing for 40 years. (Photo: Baldur Bragason/Columbia Pictures) We Bought a Zoo - December 23 The new comedy-drama from director Cameron Crowe is based on a memoir by Benjamin Mee, who used his family's life savings to buy Dartmoor Zoological Park, a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. The film stars Matt Damon (who plays Mee), Scarlett Johansson, Thomas Haden Church and Elle Fanning. (Photo: 20th Century Fox) The Darkest Hour - December 23 In this action-packed thriller, a group of young people, led by Emile Hirsch, find themselves stranded in Russia, struggling to survive a devastating alien invasion attack. The 3D effects and Moscow setting get the spotlight in this film, which also stars Olivia Thirlby and Max Minghella. (Photo: Summit Entertainment) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - December 25 (Limited) January 20 (Wide) Based on Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling 2005 novel, the film tells the story of one young boy's journey from heartbreaking loss to the healing power of self-discovery, set against the backdrop of the tragic events of September 11. Directed by Stephen Daldry, the drama stars Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, and newcomer Thomas Horn. (Photo: Francois Duhamel/Warner Bros. Pictures) The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn - December 23 Steven Spielberg directs this 3D film (produced by Peter Jackson), based on "The Adventures of Tintin," the comic book series created by Belgian artist Hergé. Combining the stories of The Crab with the Golden Claws, The Secret of the Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure, the film depicts Tintin's (Jamie Bell) first encounter with Captain Haddock (Andy Serkis) and the discovery of a clue to the treasure of his ancestor Sir Francis Haddoque. (Photo: Paramount Pictures/Columbia Pictures) War Horse - December 28 Steven Spielberg's epic adventure is a tale of loyalty and hope set in rural England and Europe during the First World War. It tells the story of a friendship between a young man named Albert and the horse Joey, who moves through the war, changing and inspiring the lives of all those he meets. (Photo: DreamWorks)


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MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Chinese vessel that ran into a protected coral reef in the southwestern Philippines held evidence of even more environmental destruction inside: more than 22,000 pounds of meat from a protected species, the pangolin or scaly anteater.
The steel-hulled vessel hit an atoll on April 8 at the Tubbataha National Marine Park, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site on Palawan island. Coast guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Armand Balilo said Monday that 400 boxes, each containing 25 to 30 kilograms of frozen pangolins, were discovered during a second inspection of the boat Saturday.
The World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines said the Chinese vessel F/N Min Long Yu could have been carrying up to 2,000 of the toothless, insect-eating animals rolled up in the boxes, with their scales already removed.
"It is bad enough that the Chinese have illegally entered our seas, navigated without boat papers and crashed recklessly into a national marine park and World Heritage Site," said WWF-Philippines chief executive officer Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan. "It is simply deplorable that they appear to be posing as fishermen to trade in illegal wildlife."
The boat's 12 Chinese crewmen are being detained on charges of poaching and attempted bribery, said Adelina Villena, the marine park's lawyer. She said more charges are being prepared against them, including damaging the corals and violating the country's wildlife law for being found in possession of the pangolin meat.
It is not yet clear which of the four Asian pangolin species the meat comes from. The International Union of Conservation of Nature lists two species as endangered: the Sunda, or Malayan, pangolin, and the Chinese pangolin. Two others, including the Philippine pangolin endemic to Palawan, are classified as near threatened.
The animals are protected in many Asian nations, and an international ban on their trade has been in effect since 2002, but illicit trade continues. The meat and scales of the pangolin fetch hundreds of dollars per kilogram in China, where many believe they cure various ailments.
The IUCN says rising demand for pangolins and lax laws are wiping out the toothless anteaters from their forest habitat in Southeast Asia.
Alex Marcaida, an officer of the government's Palawan Council for Sustainable Development, Philippine authorities consider the Philippine pangolin threatened because of unabated illicit trade. He said the Chinese crewmen have said the pangolins came from Indonesia, but officials were still verifying the claim.
WWF-Philippines said the global illegal wildlife trade is estimated to yield at least $19 billion per year, comprising the fourth-largest illegal global trade after narcotics, product and currency counterfeiting and human trafficking. It said the risks are low compared with other crimes, and that high-level traders are rarely arrested, prosecuted or convicted.
The Philippine military quoted the fishermen as saying they accidentally wandered into Philippine waters from Malaysia. They were being detained in southwestern Puerto Princesa city, where Chinese consular officials visited them.
Tubbataha is a 97,000-hectare (239,700-acre) marine sanctuary and popular diving destination 640 kilometers (400 miles) southwest of Manila. The massive reef already had been damaged by a U.S. Navy ship that got stuck in January and had to be dismantled.
The fishermen face up to 12 years' imprisonment and fines of up to $300,000 for the poaching charge alone. For possession of the pangolin meat, they can be imprisoned up to six years and fined, Villena said.


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Rule #1 - Be Patient - Rule #2 - Don't ask when, if you don't contribute - Rule #3 - You have coding skills - LinuxMCE's small brother is available: http://www.agocontrol.com
Isnt that the generic dongle? The one that doesnt work with the follow me function?
The dongles have been programmed by the original mfg to function with this remote and have been verified to work with the latest version of LinuxMCE on our end. As far as 0810 compatibility is concerned, I have not seen any confirmation that it will not work and would assume that the current LinuxMCE drivers would be grandfathered into the new version. If not, then I'm sure the open source community can make it happen.
What is the model number listed on the back of the dongle?-Krys
We've confirmed that these remotes will not work, currently, with 0810 unless a full re-write, of the code that supports this remote, is done... That isn't to say it won't work when we reach 'release'.


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Judge rules secret FBI national security letters unconstitutional
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge has struck down a set of laws allowing the FBI to issue so-called national security letters to banks, phone companies and other businesses demanding customer information.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said the laws violate the First Amendment and the separation of powers principles and ordered the government to stop issuing the secretive letters or enforcing their gag orders, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The FBI almost always bars recipients of the letters from disclosing to anyone — including customers — that they have even received the demands, Illston said in the ruling released Friday.
The government has failed to show that the letters and the blanket non-disclosure policy "serve the compelling need of national security," and the gag order creates "too large a danger that speech is being unnecessarily restricted," the San Francisco-based Illston wrote.
A Department of Justice spokesman told the Journal the department was "reviewing the order."
FBI counter-terrorism agents began issuing the letters, which don't require a judge's approval, after Congress passed the USA Patriot Act in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The case arises from a lawsuit that lawyers with the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed in 2011 on behalf of an unnamed telecommunications company that received an FBI demand for customer information.
"We are very pleased that the court recognized the fatal constitutional shortcomings of the NSL statute," EFF lawyer Matt Zimmerman said. "The government's gags have truncated the public debate on these controversial surveillance tools. Our client looks forward to the day when it can publicly discuss its experience."
Illston wrote that she was also troubled by the limited powers judges have to lift the gag orders.
Judges can eliminate the gag order only if they have "no reason to believe that disclosure may endanger the national security of the United States, interfere with a criminal counter-terrorism, or counterintelligence investigation, interfere with diplomatic relations, or endanger the life or physical safety of any person."
That provision also violated the Constitution because it blocks meaningful judicial review.
Illston ordered the FBI to cease issuing the letters, but put her order on hold for 90 days so the U.S. Department of Justice can appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Illston isn't the first federal judge to find the letters troubling. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also found the gag order unconstitutional, but allowed the FBI to continue issuing them if it made changes to its system such as notifying recipients they can ask federal judges to review the letters.
Illston ruled Friday that it's up to Congress, and not the courts, to tinker with the letters.
In 2007, the Justice Department's inspector general found widespread violations in the FBI's use of the letters, including demands without proper authorization and information obtained in non-emergency circumstances. The FBI has tightened oversight of the system.
The FBI made 16,511 national security letter requests for information regarding 7,201 people in 2011, the latest data available. The FBI uses the letters to collect unlimited kinds of sensitive, private information like financial and phone records.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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What to know about the fiscal cliff talks
President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner, R, Senate Majority Harry Reid, D, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D, are set to begin talks today at the White House about the so-called fiscal cliff. Here are four things to know about the talks.
What is the fiscal cliff?
It involves the expiring of Bush-era tax cuts in 2013, a debt-limit increase and more.
Are Democrats and Republican on the same page?
No. Obama has called several times since re-election for the Republican-controlled House to pass a Senate version of a bill to avoid the fiscal cliff, and Boehner on Wednesday called for the Democrat-controlled Senate to pass the House version.
What's the difference between the bills?
The biggest one is that Obama-favored bill extends tax cuts for the middle class but lets the cuts on the rich expire. Boehner and Republicans aren't on board with that plan, and Boehner said, "We are not going to hurt our economy and make job creation more difficult, which is exactly what (the Senate) plan would do."
Is there hope of a compromise?
Obama and Boehner have both said they are willing to work with each other and are optimistic a deal will happen, but the sides appear as far apart as ever.
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Morning Minutes: Dec. 10
Word of the Day
Precentor prih-SEN-ter (noun) A leader of the singing of a choir or congregation - www.merriam-webster.com
Website of the Day
Emily Dickinson Museum
Today is Emily Dickinson's birthday, so take some time to visit the site of the official Emily Dickinson Museum and learn about her past, her poetry and her accomplishments.
Number to Know
28.2 million: The number of real Christmas trees sold in 2009, according to www.christmastree.org.
This Day in History
Dec. 10, 1906: President Theodore Roosevelt wins the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first American to win a Nobel Prize.
Today's Featured Birthday
Actress/singer Raven-Symoné (25)
Daily Quote
"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid


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Clicking on it, by default, will take you to new unread posts. On that page, you can click on additional tabs as well, such as Popular, if you prefer to view active topics.
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You can also navigate by clicking the 3 vertical dots.
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Near the upper right-hand corner of the community, you will see navigation icons.
The first icon is for what's new on the site.
Clicking on it, by default, will take you to new unread posts.
On that page, you can click on additional tabs as well, such as Popular, if you prefer to view active topics. You can also mark all as read.
You can accomplish this by setting a custom default filter on the new posts page.
Step 1 Navigate to the specific forum you want to focus on and click "Follow Forum".
Step 2 From the navigation, near the upper right-hand corner, click on NEW.
This will open a new page of new posts for you. On the new page, click on filters.
Now you can adjust the filters to work for your personal preferences, such as the example above and save it as the default. Make sure to click the "filter" button to save it, at the bottom.
If you want to mark a specific forum as read, navigate to that forum. At the top you will see a button to "Mark All Read.
If you want to mark all threads in the community as read, click on NEW near the upper right-hand corners of the site.
Click on Mark All Read.
You will then see a popup confirming that this is what you want to do. Click "Mark All Read".
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Click on your avatar and select Account Settings from the drop-down menu.
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On your Privacy page, you will see options regarding your location.
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From the navigation, near the upper right-hand corner, click on your avatar to open the drop-down menu and select "account settings".
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Click on your avatar near the upper right-hand corner of the site and select "account settings" from the drop-down menu.
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From the navigation, near the upper right-hand corner, click on your avatar to open the drop-down menu and select "conversations".
There is no limit to the number of conversations. You can keep them indefinitely. If you choose to have one no longer display to you within your conversations, you can simply click near the upper right of the message to leave the conversation
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For leaving conversations in bulk (full page) you can do the following.
Open your conversation box. Add a checkmark next to the conversation title.
That will open a drop menu near the bottom. Add a checkmark to "Select All".
Although you can add checkmarks next to each conversation, once you select any, a drop menu near the bottom will appear. If you want to leave conversation in bulk (such as a full page) Add a checkmark to "Select All".
Click the drop-down menu next to "Choose action" select "Leave conversations" . Click GO.
Click on your avatar near the upper right-hand corner of the site and select "following" from the drop-down menu.
This will bring you to a page where you can choose to view followed discussions, forums, your discussions, and participated discussions.
From the navigation, near the upper right-hand corner, click the 3 vertical dots to open the drop-down menu and then click on "dark mode" or "light mode".
Near the bottom of every page within a thread, you will see a content box to enter your comments. Once you are done, simply click "post reply".
Once you have selected which forum or subforum where you would like to start your new discussion thread (and you have navigated to it) you will see a "Start Discussion" button.
A new screen will open. Now you can add your title, content, and any images you may want to add to your thread discussion. Make sure to click the "post thread" button when you're done.
When you see a post that you want to quote, click the reply button on that post. It will automatically add the quoted content to the content area where you can add your reply/comments following the code.
How To Multi-Quote
Step 1: Click the multi-quote icon at the bottom of each post that you want to quote.
Step 2: Scroll down to the text editor where you are going to write your post. Click "Insert Quotes".
Step 3: A small window will pop up for you to verify (or delete) quoted content that will be added to your post. Click "Quote messages".
Final Step: The quoted content will automatically be added to the text editor.
Add your comments and click to post your reply.
Added Notes: You can multi-quote from more than one discussion thread in the forum. You can also simply highlight the part of the text you want to quote. A small popup will allow you to choose the multi-quote option using just the selected content.
Start your post and normal and then click on the insert image icon.
It will pop up telling you to drag an image there or click. If you drag and drop it, you will see it show up in your post. If you click, it will allow you to navigate to where it is on your computer.
Then just click the image so it adds the file name for you, then click on open.
Finish adding any content and then simply post your reply.
If you want to display a video from a site such as YouTube, you can simply add the share link directly into the content area of your post and it will display automatically.
To get the share link, navigate to the video. Near the title you will see a share link. Click it.
A small window will open to provide you with a URL. That will be the URL you need to copy and paste into your content.
Navigate to the forum section where you would like to start a poll and then near the top right of it, click Start Discussion.
Start your posts as you normally would, including text and any images you might want to add.
Scroll down to "Post a poll" and click the arrow to the right of it to view poll options.
Now you can enter your poll question and begin to add possible responses. Once you add one poll response, another will open to add multiple choices.
Select how many of the possible responses members can choose and select any options you want to add including closing the poll after a certain number of days. Click to post your thread.
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Only moderators and admins are able to delete a post, as needed, for situations such as duplicate posts. Simply report the post for staff assistance.
Special Note: If a thread is deleted, it then deletes all the responses and thus other people's posts too. Or, when deleting a post, people may respond. Then, if you delete one post, the following posts will not make sense - because one is missing it, it destroys the understanding and flow.
From the navigation, near the upper right-hand corner of the site, click on your avatar to open the drop-down menu and select "my profile".
Click on the number below discussions.
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On the following page, click on My Discussions.
This is a great option for those times when you want to save a thread to come back to later. At the bottom of the post, you will see "save". Click on it.
Once you click on it you can add any notes to remind yourself and then simply click to save.
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Enter your search criteria and click "Search " at the bottom.
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Search Specific Forum
If you want to search a specific section, navigate to the forum section before entering your search term in the search bar and then select the option.
Search Specific Discussion Thread
If you want to search a specific discussion thread, navigate to it before entering your search term in the search bar and then select the option.
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From the navigation, near the upper right-hand corner, click the 3 vertical dots to open the drop-down menu and select "Showcase".
From the Showcase page, click on "Add item" in the right-hand corner.
A popup will appear at the top. Click on "showcase".
A form will open for you to fill in the blanks, such as title, tags, general information, etc.
Scroll down to "General Information" to content and images, in the same way that you would for writing a post. The first image added will be the cover photo.
Add any additional item details, and "Save".
If you want to make any changes, including choosing a different cover photo from the images you added, you can do so by editing your showcase.
To edit a Showcase, click on your Avatar in top right-hand corner and select "My Showcase"
Click on the title or image of the Showcase that you want to edit. Scroll to the bottom, and above comments you will see the Share options and a three-dot menu icon. Click the 3 vertical dots.
From the drop-down menu that opens, select "Edit item".
From here, you will be brought to the editor used to create the Showcase. Make changes or add content as needed. Before clicking "Save" at the bottom, you may add a checkmark to post as an update if you are working on an ongoing Showcase, such as might be the case for projects, to alert your followers.
If you want to change the cover photo, click the 3 vertical dot again.
From the drop-down menu that opens, select "Set cover image".
A popup will display the images within your showcase.
Click to add a dot to the one you want as the cover and click save.
Click on the 3 vertical dots near the upper-right-hand corner of the community.
Click on "Gallery" in the drop down menu.
From the left side navigation, click on "Your albums".
Near the top right of the page, click on "Add media".
A popup will open. Click on "Create personal album".
First, add a title to your album and a description. Now it is time to click "Upload file".
Once you have uploaded your file, add some information for the image.
When you are done, click save.
When need to add to your album, click on "Gallery" from the drop-down menu below the dots in the upper right-hand corner of the site again.
Click on "Your albums" from the left-side navigation.
You can click on the add media button again.
And then click on "Add media to existing album.
Or if you prefer, when you click on "Your albums" you can just click on the specific album where you want to add the image(s)
When you click on a specific album, you will also see some privacy options so you can decide who can view your images and who can't.
Your signature can include up to 4 lines, a maximum of 1000 characters and one link. An image counts as a line. Anytime you hit "enter" on your keyboard, it will automatically go to a new line. Images will automatically be resized to 300 x 200 pixels. You can see more options in your settings to collapse signatures, always view full signature, or to not see signatures at all. The choice is yours.
Both guests and members can view signatures.
If a user has their preferences set to the default they will see collapsed signatures as in the example below for them. (They can click to see more.)
If a user has their preferences set to always show expanded signatures it will look like the example below for them. Your image can be clicked to view full size.
If you want to adjust your preferences for signatures you can click on your avatar near the upper right-hand corner of the site and select account settings.
In the left side navigation, you will see an option for preferences. Click it.
Scroll down to content options and select your signature preferences.
When you need the URL for a specific post, simply click on the post number. This will automatically add a link to the post in your browser address bar. Copy and paste it wherever you need it.
Another option would be to click on the share button below the post.
A link will pop up that you can use to copy and paste wherever you need it.
A red dot on your avatar near the upper right-hand corner of the site, indicates that you have alerts or new conversations (private messages). When you click on your avatar you will see a number next to Alerts and/or Conversations indicating how many new ones you have. Click on each to view them.
You can adjust your settings for alerts by selecting Account Settings and then Preferences from the left side navigation on the new page.
Scroll down to "Receive a notification when someone…" and set your preferences.
For email alerts, scroll down to Content options and adjust your settings.
Make sure to click Save at the bottom if you make any changes.
The community offers push notifications if your browser's permissions allow it. You may see a popup in the community allowing you to enable these permissions for the site.
You can also enable/disable push notifications by clicking on your avatar near the upper right-hand corner of the site and selecting "Account Settings" from the drop-down menu.
You will now see left side navigation. Select "Preferences".
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The Ken Burns narrated video profile of the Let Teddy Win movement airs tonight again on ESPN's Baseball Tonight.
The 8-minute mini-documentary, which inspired president Barack Obama to join the Let Teddy Win movement, almost led to a prediction from Baseball Tonight host Karl Ravech.
"Gotta believe when they clinch first place that that'll be the day when perhaps…," Ravech said on tonight's show, before cutting himself off.
Teddy, meanwhile, lost again today in the final race of the homestand. The hero of San Juan Hill was forced to cut the outfield corner when Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln formed a makeshift blockade in centerfield.
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The quaint exterior of Honey Run Quilters belies an eclectic interior where visitors are treated to a distinctive blend of traditional and contemporary chic. The shop is located in a turn-of-the-century Victorian home in Chico, California.
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Providing the unexpected is Carmen's forte. The inside of her Victorian-home shop is set up like a gallery-she mixes trendy with traditional and displays vintage reproduction patterns next to modern samples. "We have a more contemporary flair-more modern-and that seems to be popular," Carmen says.
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Rickrack and other embellishments abound at Honey Run Quilters. "We add lots of assorted pieces to our quilts," owner Carmen Rolfe says. "Velvets, silks, linens, corduroy, home decor fabrics-just about anything funky and different."
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A lot of scientific software is freeware or free/open source software (FOSS). That's appropriate: just as the process of science should be open to enhance reproducibility, its tools should be as transparent as possible. Researchers often share their data and algorithms, and publish the output from their simulations on open-access databases such as Cornell's arXiv. Research hardware—including computer hardware—is another matter entirely. Even small, common pieces of laboratory equipment can be costly, and may not be hackable without (at minimum) violating warranties or terms of use.
Imagine a world where lab workers can create their own custom equipment in-house, using either their own designs or ones they've downloaded. A glimpse of that world appears in today's issue of Science, provided by 3D printing, the relatively low-cost fabrication technique where ceramics, polymers, and other materials are deposited in layers to build up a three-dimensional shape.
With the prices of 3D printers dropping, laboratories at companies and universities have begun using them to build up research equipment. Even better, the printers themselves are often open source—meaning their designs are available and modifiable by end-users—and controlled by FOSS programs. Students in teaching-focused institutions can be involved in the process as well, providing hands-on instruction in design principles.
The initial outlay for a 3D printer is still significant, but when compared to the cost of purchasing a whole lab's worth of equipment, it might be a cost-effective alternative for small schools or colleges. The RepRap printer is an open-source project capable of fabricating some of its own components. Designs can be up or downloaded from repositories like the Thingiverse (I certainly wasted a few fun minutes browsing some of the projects on that site).
A commercial centrifuge for biology labs may cost hundreds or thousands of dollars, but today's issue of Science describes a printed alternative. The DremelFuge is simply a power tool attachment that holds centrifuge tubes. It costs only a little more than the Dremel drill that powers it, once the 3D printer is paid for.
Of course, this won't solve every problem; I can't see inexpensive 3D printers making mass spectrometers in the near future. However, with continuing improvements in technology and lowering costs, we could see more lab equipment being made in-house with open-source hardware—both in the equipment itself and in the machinery used in its fabrication.
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The primary way I have the time lately to write so much here at Linux Critic is largely due to the fact that I'm currently unemployed.
Now, I'm the kind of guy who's normally used to having a lot of irons in the fire. I'm always tinkering with things, finding better ways of doing things, and I troubleshoot stuff that I find wrong pretty much compulsively. I normally work in IT (of course), specifically support/helpdesk. In fact, my last "real job" had me managing a helpdesk at a company that hosted hundreds of Windows Terminal Servers for thousands of end users, and I liked it a lot.
Yeah, I know, it was an almost 100% Windows shop, but for what that company does, it's the Right Tool For The Right Job — that's still important, remember?
Anyway, being unemployed for an extended amount of time when one is used to that kind of high pressure, fast paced work environment as the norm doesn't exactly scratch the usual technology itch for me. That's a big part of why I started this blog to begin with; I'm a very passionate person when it comes to technology.
As I told my wife not too long ago, not only do I like digging into tech and then writing about it here… I have to. It's part of what I am. I MUST keep moving forward, I HAVE to keep learning more about the world around me, particularly when it comes to technology, pretty much of ANY sort. Linux and open source software is an area of enormous personal interest to me, so it's a natural choice to scratch that itch for me.
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An old adage that many programmers stick to: "It takes a certain type of mind to learn programming, and not everyone can do it."
Now I'm sure that we all have our own trove of anecdotal evidence, but has this been studied scientifically?
Related: "How do you share your craft with non programmers?"
Answer: A Study that Says Yes (66 Votes)
Yes, there's a pretty famous paper online designed to more or less determine "Who is cut out to be a programmer."
A cognitive study of early learning of programming by Prof Richard Bornat and Dr. Ray Adams stipulates:
All teachers of programming find that their results display a 'double hump'. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve.
Almost all research into programming teaching and learning have concentrated on teaching: change the language, change the application area, use an IDE and work on motivation. None of it works, and the double hump persists.
We have a test which picks out the population that can program, before the course begins. We can pick apart the double hump. You probably don't believe this, but you will after you hear the talk. We don't know exactly how/why it works, but we have some good theories.
Here's a blog post by Jeff Atwood that interprets the results and puts some things into context.
Despite the enormous changes which have taken place since electronic computing was invented in the 1950s, some things remain stubbornly the same. In particular, most people can't learn to program: between 30% and 60% of every university computer science department's intake fail the first programming course.
Experienced teachers are weary but never oblivious of this fact; brighteyed beginners who believe that the old ones must have been doing it wrong learn the truth from bitter experience; and so it has been for almost two generations, ever since the subject began in the 1960s.
Answer: Another Study (41 Votes)
Another study, Investigating the viability of mental models held by novice programmers:
This paper describes an investigation into the viability of mental models used by novice programmers at the end of a first year Java programming course. The qualitative findings identify the range of mental models of value and reference assignment held by the participants. The quantitative analysis reveals that approximately one third of students held non-viable mental models of value assignment and only 17% of students held a viable mental model of reference assignment. Further, in terms of a comparison between the participants' mental models and their performance in in-course assessments and final examination, it was found that students with viable mental models performed significantly better than those with non-viable models. These findings are used to propose a more "constructivist" approach to teaching programming based on the integration of "cognitive conflict" and program visualisation.
Also, see later research from the same authors of the Sheep vs. Goats study (which was never actually published, to be clear). Their last and most recent study on this topic from 2009 is Meta-analysis of the effect of consistency on success in early learning of programming (pdf).
A test was designed that apparently examined a student's knowledge of assignment and sequence before a first course in programming but in fact was designed to capture their reasoning strategies. An experiment found two distinct populations of students: one could build and consistently apply a mental model of program execution; the other appeared either unable to build a model or to apply one consistently. The first group performed very much better in their end-of-course examination than the second in terms of success or failure. The test does not very accurately predict levels of performance, but by combining the result of six replications of the experiment, five in UK and one in Australia, we show that consistency does have a strong effect on success in early learning to program—but background programming experience, on the other hand, has little or no effect.
Answer: Anyone can be a Programmer (7 Votes)
Consider how easily people grasp spreadsheets. Consider how readily Alan Kay introduces children to programming by means of experiment and exploration in a programmable environment.
People may study success in college-level courses and conclude "some people aren't fit to learn programming". However, such a conclusion severely oversteps the bounds of the observed evidence. How much failure could instead be attributed to how the programming is taught (too abstract?), or which style of programming is taught (too imperative?), or the programming environment (compilation, no immediate feedback?).
It is well understood that people grasp abstractions most readily after they've already worked with multiple concrete instances—i.e. that we cannot learn something until we almost already know it. Starting with the abstract, therefore, is an entirely foolish way to teach programming. Many people who stumble over premisconceived "mental models" would thrive if taught in a more concrete environment with real-time feedback (e.g. as in the Kahn Academy for CS) then encouraged to climb the ladder of abstraction when they are ready for it.
In some cases, it is the students that fail their classes. Intellectual laziness and willful ignorance will exist in any large group of humans. Smart folk are no exception, as anyone who has argued with a brilliant crank can attest. But, especially for programming and maths, it is often the classes that are failing the students.
Related: "How to teach programming a person who completed CS studies but for 5 years was working in other profession?"
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YET ANOTHER UPDATE (5:24 Eastern): Microsoft has confirmed to Kotaku that the "family sharing" and digital cloud library access features that were planned to be in the Xbox One are indeed gone thanks to today's policy reversal. Xbox one users will also apparently have to download a "Day One" patch to enable the offline mode.
"You can play, share, lend, and resell your games exactly as you do today on Xbox 360." That is now the official word from Microsoft.
Microsoft says it "imagined a new set of benefits such as easier roaming, family sharing, and new ways to try and buy games," but that it also realized that "the ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you."
No Internet connection will be required to play offline Xbox One games; the Internet will only be required for a one-time initial system setup. There will be no limitations on sharing or selling game discs. Downloaded games will be playable offline, and there will be no regional restrictions on those games.
On the downside, there will be no digital "family" sharing as was previously announced, and disc-based games will require the disc to be in the tray to be played.
Here is the full text on this change directly from Microsoft:
Last week at E3, the excitement, creativity and future of our industry was on display for a global audience.
For us, the future comes in the form of Xbox One, a system designed to be the best place to play games this year and for many years to come. As is our heritage with Xbox, we designed a system that could take full advantage of advances in technology in order to deliver a breakthrough in game play and entertainment. We imagined a new set of benefits such as easier roaming, family sharing, and new ways to try and buy games. We believe in the benefits of a connected, digital future.
Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One, my team and I have heard directly from many of you, read your comments and listened to your feedback. I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One.
You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world.
So, today I am announcing the following changes to Xbox One and how you can play, share, lend, and resell your games exactly as you do today on Xbox 360. Here is what that means:
An internet connection will not be required to play offline Xbox One games – After a one-time system set-up with a new Xbox One, you can play any disc based game without ever connecting online again. There is no 24 hour connection requirement and you can take your Xbox One anywhere you want and play your games, just like on Xbox 360.
Trade-in, lend, resell, gift, and rent disc based games just like you do today – There will be no limitations to using and sharing games, it will work just as it does today on Xbox 360.
In addition to buying a disc from a retailer, you can also download games from Xbox Live on day of release. If you choose to download your games, you will be able to play them offline just like you do today. Xbox One games will be playable on any Xbox One console — there will be no regional restrictions.
These changes will impact some of the scenarios we previously announced for Xbox One. The sharing of games will work as it does today, you will simply share the disc. Downloaded titles cannot be shared or resold. Also, similar to today, playing disc based games will require that the disc be in the tray.
We appreciate your passion, support and willingness to challenge the assumptions of digital licensing and connectivity. While we believe that the majority of people will play games online and access the cloud for both games and entertainment, we will give consumers the choice of both physical and digital content. We have listened and we have heard loud and clear from your feedback that you want the best of both worlds.
Thank you again for your candid feedback. Our team remains committed to listening, taking feedback and delivering a great product for you later this year.
UPDATE: Microsoft says it has changed certain policies for the Xbox One "as a result of feedback from the Xbox community." A link to the "latest" details on the move currently points to a broken page, though. More to come.
Take this with a grain of salt for now, but Giant Bomb news writer Patrick Klepek is reporting that "multiple sources" are telling him that Microsoft will be announcing a complete reversal of its controversial Xbox One game licensing and online policies later today.
According to the report (which is currently killing Giant Bomb's servers), this means the Xbox One will no longer have to check in regularly online but will instead only require an Internet connection during the initial system setup. Game discs will be just as portable as they were on the Xbox 360, with no restrictions on resale or transfer, and downloadable games will work offline as well as online. Region locks on the system will also reportedly be dropped.
A separate report from WhatTheHiFi confirms the essential facts of the Giant Bomb report through its own unnamed sources, adding that developers are being informed of the change before consumers hear about it officially later today.
While neither site gives any more details on where this information is coming from, Klepek says that his sources tell him that Microsoft has definitely been listening closely to consumer feedback in the weeks since first revealing its information.
We're reaching out to our own sources on this and will of course let you know when anything official comes out.


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